CVE-2006-4342

The kernel in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, when running on SMP systems, allows local users to cause a denial of service (deadlock) by running the shmat function on an shm at the same time that shmctl is removing that shm (IPC_RMID), which prevents a spinlock from being unlocked.

🔗 References (14)

• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/22497
• secalert@redhathttp://secunia.com/advisories/23064
• secalert@redhathttp://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-254.htm
• secalert@redhathttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/245984
• secalert@redhathttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.html
• secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205618
• secalert@redhathttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9649
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/22497
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/23064
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-254.htm
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/245984
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0710.html
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=205618
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9649